Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-10-14
NEWS SUMMARY.

very unfavorable.
Secretary Pairchill has resumed active
control of the treasury.
Bishop Berry of Iowa declines the
Bishopric of Nova Scotia.
The Henry George party has secured 4l2
elections inspectors at New York.
Adelaide johnson will soon 20 to Rome
to work Oh a statue OF Gen. Logan.
ExGov. Alex. IL. Holey of Connecticut
is dead, sgod 50. lie was governor in
1877.
Ii has been determined that the next en-
campment Of the e. A. X. shall be held in
Columbus Ohio.
The treasurer OF the Peabody fund will
have ST., go TO spend on education in the
south next fall.
Larry Donovan OF New York success full
ly jumped from the Waterloo bridge, Lon
don, the other day.
Capt. j. q. Mac, chief mastering officer
OF the q. A. r., department Of Illinois,
died in Springfield few days ago
The wife of Hon. VIM. Strong exjus-
tice Of the United states supreme court,
died in Washington few days ago.
William Russell Sever, the Oldest gradu-
ate OF Harvard college, died at Plymouth,
Mass, few days since, aged e6 years.
There is heavy demand upon the
United States treasury for small coin.
The demand comes from all sections OF the
country.
A convention is to be held in Memphis,
Tenn, Oct. 20-2l, 10 devise some means
for the Improvement of the western
waterways.
The emigration commission at New
York propose to institute a radical change
in the methods of conducting affairs at
Castle Garden.
Again rumored that the Baltimore &
Ohio telegraph company has been swal-
lowed 10y the Wester Union, 50, 0c0, 600 being
the sum paid.
A wel-drilled company OF Pueblo In
dians from Santa Fe attended and partc-
ipated in the Chicago international mill
tary encampment.
James Gordon Bennett OF the New York
Herald, will soon begin the publication in
Paris OF n paper 70 be known as the
European Herald.
Samuel Halstead the layman in the NJ.
T.. church who started the system Of pray
ing bands some years ago, died in Brook
Ign on the 9TH inst.
The tug Orient Of Buffalo, valued at
$1,000, was lost on the upper end Of Lake
Erie the other day, and her crew of six
men were drowned.
All negotiations between the Chinese
government and American capitalists for
the construction of telegraph and tele
phone lines in China are declared OF.
Judge Thomas c. Manning, minister to
Mexico, has resigned 1t is said that Man
ming has aspirations toward u United
State senatorship hence the resignation
The treasury department has decided
that sawed square timber imported from
Canada is dutiable at g. per thousand
feet instead of at 20 per cent al valorem.
Mother Mary of the order of the Sacred
Heart and provincial OF the order of the
Good Shepherd died at the headquarters
of the order in St. Louis, Mo, on the 9th
inst.
The alleged Negro instruction in Law
renee county, Louisiana, turned out to
have been the mere whipping of num-
Der Of Negroes, and the excitement sub
sided.
Miss Sara Jewett, the once brilliant &C
tress, has been compelled 10 apply 20 the
actors fund charity bureau for aid TO
purchase the necessaries of life. Morphine
did it.
Fire broke out in Howe's spirit refinery
in New York the other day. over 10, 20
gallons Of spirits and much valuable ma
chinery was burned at loss OF about
$4,000.
W. J. Strong, ex-Secretary Of State Of
louisiana has been sentenced to two
years in the state penitentiary and TO
pay fine of u, 500 for embezziing funds
Of the state
Capt. Black and Mr.. Solomon have be
gun work on their petition to the United
States supreme court for IA new trial Of
2,0O0UO words.
Boston Corbett, the man who shot John
Wilkes Booth, after the assassination of
Lincoln, has just been declared hopele-sly
insane. He has been placed in the Kansas
state insane asylum.
+. J. Dinner hote.keeper, Hannibal
Mo, has been fined by the court of com
mon pleas 500 for selling cigars on Sun
day. An appeal Will he made to the court
of appeals, St Louis.
Proctor q Gamble, soap men, Cincin
natl, paid their employees on the eth inst
the first semi-annual share of the profits
49, per cent on their vages-the total
amount being SOS, 900.
Samuel Johnson, the defaulting tressur-
er OF powder company in Montreal, was
persuaded to return from Ogdensburg, ~
y, and when near Montreal jumped from
the train and shot himself
-Four persons were instantly killed and
two seriously wounded by an explosion
in Plants Touring mill in ST. Louis, the
other morning. The boilers were all
rusty, hence the explosion.
A muskrat dug hole in the bank of the
canal about mile above Nashua, n. H.
and caused disastrous flood. The fac
tories shut down and 1900 operatives are
thrown out OF employment.
While insane, Rev, Henry Clements, Q
Free Methodist preacher OF Millersburg,
O., placed the muzzle OF gun in his
mouth, touched the trigger with his foot,
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